When we talked about Nellie Bly this week in class, it made me think about what first introduced me to her and her work. Below I have a clip from the Comedy Central show Drunk History about Nellie Bly. The clip gives a rundown of her ten days in the asylum but in a funnier …
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A Mind on Strike
Many of the research I’ve done for this project so far has been difficult. Broken links, incomplete sources, shady websites, and so on. John Forbes Nash Jr. was very private about his life and his mental condition, so it is hard to find referenc…
Blackwell’s Island Apartments
While it may seem surprising, NYC converted the famous asylum into luxury apartments for a hefty price.
Here’s a link to the New York Post article from Jan. 28, 2021:
https://nypost.com/2021/01/28/meet-history-buffs-who-live-in-nycs-m…
Nelly Bly Muckraker
Hello everyone for this week Bonnie and I will be covering Women in the Asylum. As well as Dorothea Dix and Nelly Bly. The latter of the two being a “muckraker” an early form of investigative journalist. Her exposé on Blackwell Insane Asylum titled 10 Days in a Mad House, being what she most famous …
Bly, Winters, & Ratched
The mental health related show I will be using during week 12 is 2020’s Ratchet starring Sarah Paulson and created
“Feeling Blah? It’s Called Languishing.”
Years down the road in (hopefully) post-pandemic times, history will write about our time in quarantine as something that would happen once in a lifetime. But, having lived and experienced it, how has mental health changed for some people? And, how wil…
Week#4: Racist origins: Central State was built to imprison Black people in nightmarish conditions.
https://www.progress-index.com/story/news/local/2021/07/27/central-state-hospitals-history-and-social-control-blacks/5381100001/ This article is about Central State Hospital. A mental institution in Virginia that was built with the sole purpose of house “insane and idiotic colored persons”. This article talks more about the opinions of white Physicians and how they thought about mental illness in enslaved and newly freed African-Americans. Similar to how Galt thought […]
The 1973 APA over turn of Homosexuality as a mental illness
This link below links to a New York Times article from December 16th, 1973 that speaks about the at the time. Recent change in the American psychiatric world, that homosexuality is to be no longer viewed or considered a mental illness. The article also goes on to explain the type of mental effects that the …
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TikTok announces new mental health resources for users.
This CNN article talks about how TikTok is making new resources for users to help with potential mental health issues that they could get from the platform. An example the article talks about is when someone searches for suicide on the platform brings the user to results that help deal with suicide. Ironically this is …
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Social Deviation and Mental Illness
Modern psychiatry has moved past the diagnosis of Hysteria as a mental disorder today. This disease used to be thought to originate from women’s unpredictable reproductive organs. Their “floating wombs” in their bodies caused women’s brains and behaviors to change. They could be extremely emotional, unpredictable, irrational, or experience other unexplainable symptoms. Society really governed […]
